Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the four weeks, August 10th to September 6th, 1902...

  • Kensington (London, England). Royal Borough.
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[1902]
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    Ken 9 No. IX., 1902. The Royal Borough of Kensington. REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH For the four weeks, August 10th to September 6th, 1902; bein g the 33rd, 34th, 35th, and 36th Weeks of the Registration Year, 1902, TO WHICH IS APPENDED A REPORT ON THE SMALL-POX EPIDEMIC, 1901-2. To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Borough Council. Sir, and Gentlemen, I.—I have to report that 278 births (males 126, females 152), and 180 deaths (males 104, females 76), were registered in the four weeks ended September 6th. After making due allowance for increase of population, the births were 19, and the deaths 14, below the numbers registered in the corresponding weeks in the previous ten years. The births were equivalent to an annual rate of 20.4 per 1.000 persons living, or 1.3 per 1,000 below the decennial average (21.7). The deaths were equivalent to an annual rate of 13.2 per 1,000, or TO per 1,000 below the decennial average (14.2). The rate in the successive weeks was 11.4, 12.9, 14.4, and 14.1. The death-rate in the Metropolis was 15.7 per 1,000; 2.5 above the rate in Kensington, and 3.3 below the decennial average (19.0). Seventyfive of the deaths of Kensington parishioners were of children under 5 years of age, including 50 under 1 year. Fifty-five persons died at 60 and upwards. Eighteen deaths were caused by the diseases of the respiratory organs, including bronchitis 5, and pneumonia 12. The deaths from phthisis were 18, from diseases of the heart 18, and from tubercular or scrofulous diseases of children under 5 years of age, 1.